Go and Confront Her Master ### At the Rongguo Immortal Estate, in the small courtyard on the floating island where Lin Daiyu lived, night had fallen deep. The starry river stretched across the sky above the island, and all was still.
Yet starkly contrasting with the tranquil night was the almost impassable "spectacle" inside the main hall of Daiyu's courtyard.
The not-so-spacious hall was piled high with all kinds of beautifully packaged gift boxes, brocade cases, and jade caskets, each faintly glowing with spiritual light. They covered nearly every table and chair, every stand, and even the floor.
Among them were fine spiritual-jade ornaments, archaic immortal artifacts, bolts of cloud brocade and immortal silk shimmering with iridescent light, entire boxes of top-grade spirit stones, and countless rare plants and precious medicines whose names she did not know but whose value was obvious at a glance.
All these were congratulatory gifts from the various noble houses, relatives, and old friends who had attended the celebratory banquet held that evening by Rongguo Mansion, honoring Lin Daiyu for taking first place in the Yingying Examination of the Immortal Selection.
Quite a few had even been given by guests who had arrived uninvited, a testament to the shockwaves caused by Daiyu's victory.
Earlier that evening, at her maternal grandmother's command, the Rongguo Immortal Estate had held a grand banquet for her. The masters, mistresses, wives, and young ladies of both the Ning and Rong Mansions had attended, along with guests from many noble houses with whom the family was on good terms.
Though inviting guests on the very day of the banquet was rather discourteous, once the noble houses heard that the Immortal Selection Bureau had posted the results that day and that the granddaughter of the Rongguo Immortal Estate had won first place